Toxin-antitoxin systems and their medical applications: current status and future perspective

A Srivastava, S Pati, H Kaushik, S Singh… - Applied Microbiology and …, 2021 - Springer
Almost all bacteria synthesize two types of toxins—one for its survival by regulating different
cellular processes and another as a strategy to interact with host cells for pathogenesis …

A systematic overview of type II and III toxin-antitoxin systems with a focus on druggability

SM Kang, DH Kim, C Jin, BJ Lee - Toxins, 2018 - mdpi.com
Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are known to play various roles in physiological processes,
such as gene regulation, growth arrest and survival, in bacteria exposed to environmental …

Structural and functional studies of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis VapBC30 toxin-antitoxin system: implications for the design of novel antimicrobial peptides

IG Lee, SJ Lee, S Chae, KY Lee, JH Kim… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems play important roles in bacterial physiology, such as multidrug
tolerance, biofilm formation, and arrest of cellular growth under stress conditions. To develop …

Modulators of protein–protein interactions as antimicrobial agents

R Kahan, DJ Worm, GV de Castro, S Ng… - RSC Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein–Protein interactions (PPIs) are involved in a myriad of cellular processes in all living
organisms and the modulation of PPIs is already under investigation for the development of …

Targeting type II toxin–antitoxin systems as antibacterial strategies

M Równicki, R Lasek, J Trylska, D Bartosik - Toxins, 2020 - mdpi.com
The identification of novel targets for antimicrobial agents is crucial for combating infectious
diseases caused by evolving bacterial pathogens. Components of bacterial toxin–antitoxin …

Artificial Activation of Escherichia coli mazEF and hipBA Toxin–Antitoxin Systems by Antisense Peptide Nucleic Acids as an Antibacterial Strategy

M Równicki, T Pieńko, J Czarnecki… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The search for new, non-standard targets is currently a high priority in the design of new
antibacterial compounds. Bacterial toxin–antitoxin systems (TAs) are genetic modules that …

Functional details of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis VapBC26 toxin-antitoxin system based on a structural study: insights into unique binding and antibiotic peptides

SM Kang, DH Kim, KY Lee, SJ Park… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are essential for bacterial persistence under stressful
conditions. In particular, Mycobacterium tuberculosis express VapBC TA genes that encode …

Functional insights into the Streptococcus pneumoniae HicBA toxin–antitoxin system based on a structural study

DH Kim, SM Kang, SJ Park, C Jin… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Streptococcus pneumonia has attracted increasing attention due to its resistance to existing
antibiotics. TA systems are essential for bacterial persistence under stressful conditions such …

Development of toxin-antitoxin self-destructive bacteria, aimed for salmonella vaccination

N Gruzdev, J Pitcovski, C Katz, N Ruimi, D Eliahu… - Vaccine, 2023 - Elsevier
The most common source of foodborne Salmonella infection in humans is poultry eggs and
meat, such that prevention of human infection is mostly achieved by vaccination of farm …

Structural analyses of the MazEF4 toxin-antitoxin pair in Mycobacterium tuberculosis provide evidence for a unique extracellular death factor

DH Ahn, KY Lee, SJ Lee, SJ Park, HJ Yoon… - Journal of Biological …, 2017 - ASBMB
The bacterial toxin-antitoxin MazEF system in the tuberculosis (TB)-causing bacterium
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is activated under unfavorable conditions, including starvation …